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Sworn in last week as Argentina's new President, replacing deposed Strongman Juan Perón: Major General Eduardo Lonardi. 59, a career officer whose name was unknown to most of his countrymen one week earlier Origins. Born Sept. 17, 1896. in Buenos Aires, son of a music teacher of Italian descent. Family name was originally Leonardi Military Career. Graduated from the national military academy as artillery lieutenant. Taught tactics at Superior War College in 1930s. Appointed Argentine military attaché in Santiago, Chile in 1943, where he succeeded Colonel Juan Perón who had been suspected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hemisphere: ARGENTINA'S NEW PRESIDENT | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

...Unknown and unheralded in the U.S., French Pantomimist Marcel Marceau, 32, opened last week in Manhattan (off Broadway) for a two-week run. When the curtain rose on a bare stage and a black backdrop, it looked as if Mime Marceau, gesticulating but wordless, had about as much chance of success in hard-to-please New York as a mute at a hog-calling contest. But next morning the critics called him "superb," his work a "masterpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Something to See | 10/3/1955 | See Source »

Moffatt, who had done extensive travelling in Canada, planned a route from Lake Athabaska down the Dubawnt River to Baker Lake that had last been travelled by James B. Tyrell in 1898, except possibly for unknown trappers and Eskimoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soph Describes Fatal Canoe Mishap | 9/29/1955 | See Source »

...levittown," Peter Heliczer protests against the impersonality of modern life. The salesman, however, expresses this protest so melodramatically and with such inordinate sensitivity, that it all seems incredible. Heliczer may have intended an entirely different meaning for his poem. If so, the key must lie in the deep and unknown significance of the word "levittown...

Author: By Frank R. Safford, | Title: The Harvard Advocate | 9/28/1955 | See Source »

...must have a fat bank roll, be prepared to take months of heavy losses before its luck turns and it gets the free-spending, heavy-gambling regular clients that are the shock absorbers in the older places. In one new hotel there were so many bosses that some were unknown to each other. The new hotels were also overstaffed, and could not get the all-important entertainers-Danny Thomas, Jimmy Durante, Joe E. Lewis, Martin & Lewis, Tony Martin, et al.-that brought in the suckers; the stars were already sewed up in three-year deals by the established hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: Snake Eyes in Las Vegas | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

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